I know I'm in way over my head here and far too inexperienced to understand this but "Quantitative PCR" still sounds very strange to me and very hard to imagine. Once you get the amplification (Like blowing up a tiny picture, say, a photo on a piece of microfilm so you can see it.) how can you count anything?

Yeah, that PCR one REALLY bugs me when I hear it in casual conversation.

Yeah, it gets really tiring to hear all those folks in sports bars chatter on and on about "PCR" throughout TV commercial breaks in the game and I really get pissed off hearing them still go on about that shit even during the game itself. It's just plain rude!

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Well, you know Batty, if you like X-Files, you can see Scully going about "Where are my PCRs?" (good it isn't " my PCR reactions...). I don't know but I bet lots of common investigation tv series today must fire that all the time too (CSI, etc)... I just thought that the suggestible Zappa fan should be well informed...ARF!

Ladies and gentlemen, The PCR:

_________________The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

Well, you know Batty, if you like X-Files, you can see Scully going about "Where are my PCRs?" (good it isn't " my PCR reactions...). I don't know but I bet lots of common investigation tv series today must fire that all the time too (CSI, etc)... I just thought that the suggestible Zappa fan should be well informed...ARF!

Ladies and gentlemen, The PCR:

And right you are, Mr Green Genes! I just wanted on a few occasions to do a stop-action just to see if one of the blot pages they held up was a fake but there's no way to know that since you never know the real origin of it or what was being looked for so they can show you just about any real blot and the bands on it can mean anything they want you to believe it does.

About two years ago a middle-aged woman on her cell phone in one of the several "big wholesale club" stores (Where nothing is priced wholesale but it brings in the many.) I overheard to say, over all the other loud voices, "Uhhh, yuh, you said you wanted me to pick you up three pairs of blue jeans if they were under $40 and these are all $34.95, but what color blue jeans are you looking for? They've got about four, maybe five different colors of blue jeans here. A few like a burnt orange, some brownish, and there's a dark red-ish and, ummm....."

Maybe I'm strange for thinking what she said was strange but I got a laugh out of it.

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